By Nicole Gregory, contributing writer
As the new school year gets underway, students and faculty stepping foot onto the Cal State Fullerton campus will see building renovations and improvements that increase functionality and enhance the aesthetics of the entire environment.
One of the most obvious is the progress made in the massive modernization project for the Visual Arts buildings.
“As you return to campus, you will see the two new buildings fully framed,” said Jade Jewett, a professor who teaches drawing and painting in the Cal State Fullerton College of Art. “While the steel is still visible, builders have begun installing interior walls, windows, doors and architectural details. There is a new roof on Building E, and Building A is nearing its interior renovations.”
The $65 million modernization project is now in year two and is on track for completion in the fall of 2024. It includes the building of new classrooms and a renovation of the Visual Arts Complex. The new buildings will have spaces for high-tech classes, green-screen labs, galleries and a collections library, Jewett said. “This ‘VA MOD’ Project will expand how we teach, learn, engage with, and share the arts,” she said.
The increase of space is critical to address students’ interests and needs, Jewett said. “Our renovated and new buildings will expand the potential for teaching and sharing art in interdisciplinary, innovative and collaborative ways. The new center will not only right-size our spaces for our current enrollment, but it will support the broadest demands of today’s students and expand opportunities for the community to come to campus and engage with art.”
Cal State Fullerton’s Visual Arts program includes a broad range of 14 disciplines. “We are the largest Visual Arts program in the Cal State system,” Jewett said. “We have popular digital majors and smaller boutique ones — all of which prepare students for the 1.8 million jobs in the booming…
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